Since 1986 Attorney-at-Law in the law firm Thümmel, Schütze & Partner; Lecturer for foreign law at the ESB European School of Business, Reutlingen University
Current activity
Professional focus
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- International Procedural Law
- Commercial Arbitration
- CISG
- Construction Law
- Law of Guarantee
- Letters of Credit
- Joint Venture
- International Distribution Law
- Licencing and Technology Transfer
- Patent Litigation
- English law and its developments in India, Singapore and Malaysia.
Areas of law
My career
- 1976 - 1982 Studies in law at Universities of Tübingen and Geneva
- 1982 First Legal State Examination
- 1983 - 1986 Legal traineeship at Court of Appeal Stuttgart
- 1986 Second Legal State Examination, Baden-Württemberg
- 1986 Admission to the Bar at Regional Court of Stuttgart
- 1986 Employment with Stuttgart law firm Thümmel, Schütze & Partner
- 1987 Doctor of law, University of Tübingen
- 1987 - 1988 Head of Singapore office of Thümmel, Schütze & Partner
- 1988 - today Attorney-at-Law and Partner of Thümmel, Schütze & Partner
Arbitration experience
As arbitrator: 3 Ad hoc arbitration proceedings as Chairman, 3 ICC arbitration proceedings as Chairman/Sole Arbitrator, 17 arbitration proceedings as co-arbitrator (ICC, DIS, VIAC, ad hoc); As counsel: more than 45 proceedings including ICC, DIS, SIAC, VIAC, ad hoc; Subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings: Technology Transfer, Patent Infringement, CISG, Law of Guarantee, Letter of Credit, Commercial Agent/Distributor, Construction Projects in the Russian Federation, Corporate Law, Consortium Agreement, disputes related to automotive industry.
Publications
- i.a. "Forms of Suretyship in England and their Treatment in Private International Law", 1987
- Provisional Remedies in International Commercial Arbitration, Country Report Singapore, De Gruyter, 1994
- Arbitration in Germany, KLRCA Newsletter, 2000
- Rules of Arbitration of the Regional Centre For Arbitration Kuala Lumpur, in Schütze (Ed.), Institutionelle Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, 2005
Languages
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- German
- English
- French
Memberships
- IBA
- German-British Jurists' Association (Board Member)
- German-Singapore Lawyers' Association (Board Member)
- German Institution of Arbitration ("DIS")